This substitute amendment eliminates the prohibition against possessing, purchasing, or selling a switchblade knife. This substitute amendment treats knives in the same manner as current law treats firearms by prohibiting local governments from regulating the sale, purchase, or possession of knives and prohibiting charging a person with disorderly conduct for going armed with a knife without criminal intent. Finally, this substitute amendment eliminates a knife from being considered a weapon for purposes of a license to carry a concealed weapon, and eliminates the general prohibition against going armed with a concealed knife except that, under the substitute amendment, a person who is prohibited under state law from possessing a firearm may not go armed with a concealed knife that is a dangerous weapon.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

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1. 66.0409 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

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2. 66.0409 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

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66.0409 (2) Except as provided in subs. (3) and (4), no political subdivision may 5enact or enforce an ordinance or adopt a resolution that regulates the sale, purchase, 6purchase delay, transfer, ownership, use, keeping, possession, bearing, 7transportation, licensing, permitting, registration, or taxation of any knife or any 8firearm or part of a firearm, including ammunition and reloader components, unless 9the ordinance or resolution is the same as or similar to, and no more stringent than, 10a state statute.

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3. 66.0409 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

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66.0409 (3) (a) Nothing in this section prohibits a county from imposing a sales 13tax or use tax under subch. V of ch. 77 on any knife or any firearm or part of a firearm, 14including ammunition and reloader components, sold in the county.

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4. 66.0409 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:

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66.0409 (6) Unless other facts and circumstances that indicate a criminal or 17malicious intent on the part of the person apply, no person may be in violation of, or 18be charged with a violation of, an ordinance of a political subdivision relating to 19disorderly conduct or other inappropriate behavior for loading,a firearm, or for20carrying, or going armed with a firearm or a knife, without regard to whether the 1firearm is loaded or the firearm or the knife is concealed or openly carried. Any 2ordinance in violation of this subsection does not apply and may not be enforced.

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5. 175.60 (1) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:

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175.60 (1) (j) "Weapon" means a handgun, an electric weapon, as defined in s. 5941.295 (1c) (a), a knife other than a switchblade knife under s. 941.24, or a billy club.

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6. 938.78 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

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938.78 (3)Release of information when escape or absence; rules. If a juvenile 8adjudged delinquent under s. 48.12, 1993 stats., or s. 938.12 or found to be in need 9of protection or services under s. 48.13 (12), 1993 stats., or s. 48.13 (14), 1993 stats., 10or s. 938.13 (12) or (14) on the basis of a violation of s. 943.23 (1m) or (1r), 1999 stats., 11or s. 941.10, 941.11, 941.20, 941.21, 941.23, 941.231, 941.235, 941.237, 941.24,12941.26, 941.28, 941.295, 941.298, 941.30, 941.31, 941.32, 941.325, 943.02, 943.03, 13943.04, 943.10 (2) (a), 943.23 (1g), 943.32 (2), 948.02, 948.025, 948.03, 948.05, 14948.055, 948.085 (2), 948.60, 948.605, or 948.61 or any crime specified in ch. 940 has 15escaped from a juvenile correctional facility, residential care center for children and 16youth, inpatient facility, as defined in s. 51.01 (10), juvenile detention facility, or 17juvenile portion of a county jail, or from the custody of a peace officer or a guard of 18such a facility, center, or jail, or has been allowed to leave a juvenile correctional 19facility, residential care center for children and youth, inpatient facility, juvenile 20detention facility, or juvenile portion of a county jail for a specified time period and 21is absent from the facility, center, home, or jail for more than 12 hours after the 22expiration of the specified period, the department or county department having 23supervision over the juvenile may release the juvenile's name and any information 24about the juvenile that is necessary for the protection of the public or to secure the 25juvenile's return to the facility, center, home, or jail. The department shall 1promulgate rules establishing guidelines for the release of the juvenile's name or 2information about the juvenile to the public.

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7. 939.632 (1) (e) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB102-SSA1,4,1210941.231Carrying a concealed knife. Any person who is prohibited from 11possessing a firearm under s. 941.29 who goes armed with a concealed knife that is 12a dangerous weapon is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

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11. 947.01 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

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947.01 (2) Unless other facts and circumstances that indicate a criminal or 16malicious intent on the part of the person apply, a person is not in violation of, and 17may not be charged with a violation of, this section for loading,a firearm, or for18carrying, or going armed with a firearm or a knife, without regard to whether the 19firearm is loaded or the firearm or the knife is concealed or openly carried.

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12. 968.255 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read: